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Show 125 NISUS ( 1HIEBASPIZIAS) SUPERCILIOSUS! UFalco 8upertilio8U8 LINN. S. N. i, 1766,128 ( Surinam), (==/ wi?., transition- plumage?).- GMKL. S. N. i, 1788, 282.- LATH. Ind. Orn. i, 1790, 43; Gen. Hist, i, 1821, 294. Aceipiter superciliosus STRICKL. Orn. Syn. 1,1855,115. r'Falco tints LATH. Ind. Orn. i, 1790, 50; Gen. Hist, i, 1821, 295 ( Cayenne).- DAUJ>. Tr. Orn. ii, 1800,146.- SHAW, Zool. vii, 1812, 209. Actipiter tinus, GRAY, List Ace. Br. Mns. 1848,72; Gen. B. 1849, 29, pi. 10 ( adult); Hand List, i, 1869, 33.- SALVIN, P. Z. S. 1867, 158 ( remarks on coloration).- BONAP. Consp. i, 18* 0, 32.- PELZ. Orn. Bras. 1871, 8, 399.- SCL. & SALV. Nom. Neotr. 1873,120.- SHARPB, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus. 1874,139. lUeratpizia tinus KAUP, Contr. Orn. 1850, 63. Teraspiza tinus BONAP. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1854, 538. . Yi « iu Hutu IBURM. Th. Bras, ii, 1855, 70.- SCL. Mus. P.- B. Astures, 1862, 33; Rev. Ace. 1873, 77.- RIDGW. Pr. Boston Soc. May, N. H. 1873, 59. Tcraspiza tinus KAUP, P. Z. S. 1867, 171. Sparvius sutmif/ er VIKILL. Nonv. Diet. 1817,319.- PucnERAX, Rev.' Zool. 1850, 92. Spartius minutus VIKILL. N. D. x, 1817, 328, Enc. Me* th. iii, 1823, 1207.- PCCHKR. R. Z- 1850, 93. Mm malfini LESS. Tr. 1831, 58.- PCCHER. R. Z. 1850, 209. leraspUafontanieri BONAP. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 536. Hob.- Brazil to Guatemala. Wing, 5.20- 6.50; tail, 3.90- 5.50; culmen, 0.45- 0.55; tarsus, 1.40- 1.90; middle toe, 1.0O- 1.35. Third or fourth quill longest; first shortest; inner web of outer four distinctly emarginated. Lower parts, except throat ( and sometimes the anal region), with distinct transverse bars of rufous, brown, or plumbeous, on an ochraceous or white ground. Adult- Above dusky, the pileum nearly black, and the back with a decided plumbeous cast. Tail with four to five bands of blackish and plumbeous or brownish- slate ( the two colors iu nearly equal proportion,) and sometimes with a narrow terminal margin of white. Ear- coverts and sides of nape plumbeous, the former usually somewhat broken by a faint, whitish, indistinct barring. Lower parts white, the entire surface covered with numerous, regular, transverse bars of light slate or plumbeous, these bars usually wider on the sides than along the median portion, widest apart on the crissum, and most numerous and dense on the tibiae; axillars and lining of the wing similarly barred. Inner webs of primaries with transverse spots of dusky slate from base to end. Gular region white, without bars. Young.- Brown phase:- Above, sepia- brown, the pileum nearly black; the feathers with or without rusty borders. Tail lighter, and crossed by six to seven bands of dusky black. Lower parts white or pale ochraceous, harred as in the adult, but with rusty- brown or umber, instead of slate or plnmbeous. Rufous pJiase:- Above, bright rusty- rufous, brightest on the tail, more dusky on the pileum. Tail with six to seven narrow bands of black, these sometimes not reaching from the shaft to the edge of the feathers. Lower parts pale ochraceous or rufescent white ( the tibia* quite rusty), barred as in other stages, but with deep rufous or rusty-brown. That the rufous plumage of this species is not a progressive stage, bat a mere individual phase, is proven by the examination of individuals in the transition- state. One of this character in Mr. Salvin's collection, from Veragua, originally an extreme example of the rufescent phase, was moulting directly into the adult plumage described above, as numerous new feathers in all parts of its plumage plainly show. Another, in the same collection, from Bahia, is an adult in somewhat * orn plumage, still retaining a few bright- rufous feathers among the axillars. On the other hand, specimens which are iu the sepia- brown plumage, usually regarded as an intermediate stage between the rufous |
